123's sales office moves out; Prime moving up?

On East 10th Street, it appears the 123 Third Avenue sales team has packed up and moved out of the office that opened here last July.

Before!



Now!

...taking the 123 signage with it...

Makes sense now that the 123 Third Avenue tower is like 90 percent sold. As Jeremiah pointed out recently, Prime & Beyond — a cross between "Peter Luger and Chipotle" per Zagat — is taking over the long-dormant space that previously housed Danal.

One rumor: The Prime folks downstairs will be taking over the 123 space upstairs.

Previously.

Memorial Day Weekend in review

[Saturday at 35 Cooper Square]

Someone hung "NYPD Rapists" flyers (Sunday)

The Marshal seized Hirai Mong on St. Mark's (Saturday)

There was another protest outside the Continental (Saturday)

Lady Gaga posters were vandalized and replaced overnight (Monday)

We watched a model at work on Ninth Street (Sunday)

We went to the Loisaida Festival on Avenue C (Monday)

We looked at "Hangover Part II" promos at 7-Eleven (Monday)

A missed connection on the N train (Sunday)

There was a good punk concert Sunday in Tompkins Square Park, that wasn't so crowded...

Someone tagged the ping pong table in Tompkins Square Park (Saturday)

The Van Leeuwen Artisan Ice Cream shoppe opened on Seventh Street (Saturday)

On Friday afternoon, Jeff proposed to Caitlin in front of a specially created mural by Tats Cru on Second Street at Avenue A...

[Photo by the Late Adopter]

And she said yes. Via Twitter, she told us that she was and is still in shock over the proposal.

Staring at the sunset

A little while ago on 14th Street and Avenue B... via A Scouting Life.

20 years ago: The East Village Memorial Day riot on Avenue A

Bob Arihood has photos and a narrative of what happened after the NYPD shuts down the "Housing is a Human Right" concert in Tompkins Square Park on Memorial Day 1991. You can read his report here.

[Photo by Bob Arihood]

Crossing Third Avenue

Casualties of the heatwave

Not what we meant by beating the heat ... on the Bowery near Fifth Street.

Crews work the weekend to keep Lady Gaga ads vandal free

On Third Avenue near 12th Street on...

Saturday!

Sunday!

At the Loisaida Festival on Avenue C yesterday

Thanks to Krikor for the photos. (Find more here on Flickr.)

With 7-Elevens in NYC, how would we ever know about these 'Hangover Part II' promos?

Outside the newish location on Third Avenue near 20th Street.

A day in the life of an East Village model

Ninth Street and Avenue B earlier today. Photos by Bobby Williams.

Second Avenue, 5:29 p.m., May 29

Noted

Earlier today on Third Avenue near 14th Street.

At the Loisaida Festival

Avenue C near Fifth Street right now via EV Grieve reader RobbieTheK.

The 'NYPD Rapists' flyer campaign

Someone has been posting these flyers of Kenneth Moreno and Franklin Mata, the two NYPD officers acquitted last week of charges of raping an East Village woman.

I spotted the flyers along the Bowery and Second Avenue... these were outside the Mars Bar...

The Voice has more on Friday's protest downtown. The Post has the latest ugly turn in the case today, in which the ex-wife of Moreno calls the rape accuser "a money-grubbing liar."

Reminders: The Loisaida Festival is today

And we're hopeful that you didn't leave your cab parked here. It's getting towed.

Going to the mural and we're gonna to get married

The Late Adopter caught up with the Mural Marriage Proposal Couple yesterday on Second Street and Avenue A...

Our friends at Runnin' Scared have more on all this here.

Previously.

[With apologies to the Dixie Cups for borrowing a lyric for the headline]

Meanwhile, on the N train...

Dunno how long this flyer has been up... I only saw it yesterday on Houston near Chrystie... Dunno if it needs much of a narrative...

I suggest that she tries a mural.

East 10th Street yesterday

During the street fair portion of the Lower East Side Festival of the Arts, which continues today...

[Blue Glass]

[Bobby Williams]

Another protest outside the Continental tonight

EV Grieve reader AWKWORD notes that protestors — organized by the Answer Coalition — have returned to the Continental on Third Avenue this evening to protest what they consider to be discriminatory acts by the bar’s bouncers....

You can read more about this ongoing story here. Bob Arihood has more at Neither More Nor Less here.

Table tennis tagging

A little more than two months since the city installed a new permanent ping-pong table in Tompkins Square Park, someone has tagged it...

We're not always whistle-blower types. But, in this case, we will admit we know who's responsible...

Marshal seizes Hirai Mong on St. Mark's Place

Here at 12 St. Mark's Place, a restaurant space that has seemingly been about 10 different things in the last 10 years... Hirai Mong opened last March in the former Gama space.

Previously on EV Grieve:
Former Gama space becoming a fusion restaurant and bar

Van Leeuwen Artisan Ice Cream now open on Seventh Street

Thanks to the multiple tipsters who pointed out that the Van Leeuwen Artisan Ice Cream shoppe is now open on Seventh Street just east of Second Avenue... And, apparently, they are happy to be here.

Previously.

A marriage proposal by mural on Second Street (and she said yes)

Multiple readers/tipsters sent along word yesterday about a marriage proposal on the mural on East Second Street at Avenue A... as this photo from RyanAvenueA shows...

And later, Ryan (different one!) notes that the Caitlin of the mural said yes. Hey, he's not even on his knee!

The Late Adopter has a nice shot of the mural too here.